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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I think you're missing the point: there is no restriction that's preventing the books from being put up for download in torrent/bulk form. Yes, a decision has been made that the books aren't going to be put up in that form here - but deciding not to do something is different from restricting other people from doing it.
No one is restricting people from putting books up in torrent or other bulk format: they are simply not choosing to do it themselves. There is a difference.
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There's another consideration: some uploaders here do not want their books distributed elsewhere, especially not in torrents. While there's likely nothing they could legally do if they were (it's unclear how much formatting is protected by copyright law, and plenty of publishers seem to want you to believe it's entirely covered)--there is something they could do.
They could stop uploading.
This is the reason we have copyright law in the US--to convince artists it's worth their time & effort to offer stuff to the public, because they get to control some of the public use of the materials. Copyright law doesn't cover the MR uploads (for the most part), but the same goal does: Don't annoy the artists you'd like to go on producing works for you.